Lingard is the only new player in the squad, so not whole sale changes.

Pedantic you may think but a few is more than 2

Jake Trueman's situation reminds me of the time when we had Bill Ashurst at the club.


 In the days before social media and squad announcements we'd turn up at Belle Vue wondering if he'd be fit and playing. If he was, we were going to be in with a shout of winning as he was a superbly talented player, but sadly it was often not the case, but the club didn't just cast him aside. That specialist up in Middlesbrough he was always going to see must have had a comfortable retirement on the back of the  charges we paid for Bill's consultations.


Same with Jake , he's a very talented player who, unfortunately can't get a break at the moment. Stick with him, we stuck with Tom J (twice) through a run of injuries, he came through it . 

Jake Trueman wishes he was a tenth of the player Bill Ashurst was but I get what you mean

There's loads of examples.


Lomax at Sts had seasons out when he was younger
Percival gas missed a lot of games


Both well worth waiting for.